They might be able to just swoop in and offer a complete solution the likes of which linux has been unable to - all bundled with and guaranteed/supported on their own hardware as well.
If Apple doesn't have a complete equivalent-or-better solution ready to go, right now, they've missed the boat and will have to wait to pull your "swoop in" move until the next Windows release.
Thats pretty much my point. Saying "they've done this before" doesn't mean a new design will be perfect, or that "spectacular failures" are impossible.
Because most people have the incorrect assumption that Open Source == Linux. Including fanboys of Open Source, Linux, and Microsoft. Also, Microsoft has a history of their spokespeople declaring war on "Open Source" when they mean "Linux".
They can make the off switch illegal if they want. There's the other option of removing the plug from the outlet.
Or failing that, a pair of insulated wire cutters. Or a large hammer. Or....
Hell, doesn't bother me any, I have two 13" tvs, one of which is having issues and about to be tossed. Its not being replaced. When the other one dies or is made obsolete by the final switch to hdtv only, it too will find a dumpster and not be replaced.
Why the HELL is that modded +5 insightful (at the time of this posting, anyway)?
They're still incorporated in Delaware. They're still a US company, and still paying US taxes. If you bothered to do more than parrot the party-line hatred of Haliburton, you'd know that.
Minor nitpick: Games have to follow those rules if they want the "Games for Windows" tag/emblem/seal/logo/whatever. There's NOTHING that says you can't make a game, for windows, that doesn't follow those rules. It just won't have the Microsoft awarded logo "Games for Windows".
Since I haven't had cause to go get it, and since I don't like to repeat possible FUD, I don't use that example. I don't know if its really 6000+ pages, or how incomplete it is, or anything else about it.
I can also pass on the opportunity to bash microsoft based on information I have not verified. I'll reserve my bashing for verified failures.
I'm activly planning on those programs NOT being around, because our incompetent leadership will continue to leave them broken for fear of being seen as the party that "broke" the system.
Expensive to treat illness? Got that. Its not too bad now, but its one that will get worse over time. Age? Getting there. Turn 55 in a couple months. Well paying job? Well, I run my own business. Selling it will be the only way I'm going to get fired, and at this point, selling the business means retirement comes a few years early.
My retirement planning has put me in a position that I won't need any of the government handouts. And I'm enough of a curmdugeon to say "tough luck" to anyone who planned on sucking the government's tit.
By the way, if you want to see a group of idiots keeping the system broke, blame the members of the AARP.
I'm a conservative (NOT a Republican -- I can't stand our current batch of crooks, or the party that has produced crook after crook after crook).
There's a difference between conservation and what the environmentalists stand for. I support conservation. I do NOT support the extremist policies the green party wants to enforce. Protecting wildlife, good. Transplanting endangered plants to stop something you don't like, bad. Drilling in Alaska, bad with current tech -- I'm open to the idea of drilling in the future with better technology.
Then again, I'm not like most conservatives. I'm not christian. I'm pagan, and as a result I view nature as something other than being put here entirely for the human race to pillage and plunder.
I won't argue that Stallman has been useful, and will likely continue to be useful. But it IS possible for him to hurt free software / open source. The reason is that his socialist rants rub some people the wrong way.
If he'd turn down the socialist rhetoric even a little bit, he'd probably be better received all around.
The problem is other than geeks, nerds, and linux & sony fanboys, most people don't care about having one box that does everything.
Most people ALREADY HAVE a DVD player, a CD player, and a PC to do everything else you mentioned. Most people are not racing to jump on the BluRay/HDDVD wagon. And the PSP isn't exactly the most popular handheld either, especially for casual gamers, so thats not an advantage. The casual gamer is not going to shell out $600 for a device that duplicates functionality they've already got with other devices.
Geeks, nerds, and the linux & sony fanboys are a different story, of course, and your reasoning might work for them. But for the casual gamer -- my parents, for example -- its a $600 box that plays a few games, since they already have stuff to do the others.
As an American who appreciates good beer, I agree that you shouldn't treat beer like this. BUT. You also have to admit he's not throwing beer, he's throwing cans of horse piss.
Sorry, I don't agree -- PC games have long been about the same price as console games ($40 - $60), yet have supported a far more complex range of hardware, including higher resolutions than HDTV, and have done so for several years.
Maybe with marketing. But not with any gamer I've talked to.
None of those games are going to be cheaper to buy because of their ads, which is the only way the gaming community is going to like this. If I can get what would have been a $50 game for $20 because it has ads, I might consider buying the game. But I'm not keen on paying "full" price for a game with ads.
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They might be able to just swoop in and offer a complete solution the likes of which linux has been unable to - all bundled with and guaranteed/supported on their own hardware as well.
If Apple doesn't have a complete equivalent-or-better solution ready to go, right now, they've missed the boat and will have to wait to pull your "swoop in" move until the next Windows release.
This is why I don't play PvP, I play PvE, and avoid PvP most of the time.
Treat a MMORPG as an RPG, not a FPS.
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Thats pretty much my point. Saying "they've done this before" doesn't mean a new design will be perfect, or that "spectacular failures" are impossible.
Doesn't take very long at all. There's friction between liquid molecules as well.
And Ford had been building cars for the better part of a century and they still produced the Pinto.
Because most people have the incorrect assumption that Open Source == Linux. Including fanboys of Open Source, Linux, and Microsoft. Also, Microsoft has a history of their spokespeople declaring war on "Open Source" when they mean "Linux".
Doesn't look all that entertaining. Aside from the Penny Arcade fanboyism there doesn't appear to be anything in that game worth buying.
I don't buy the bullshit that the **AA is out to run everything. You want to live in fear of your fairy tale, you go right ahead.
I'll be out in the real world having a lot more fun.
They can make the off switch illegal if they want. There's the other option of removing the plug from the outlet.
Or failing that, a pair of insulated wire cutters. Or a large hammer. Or....
Hell, doesn't bother me any, I have two 13" tvs, one of which is having issues and about to be tossed. Its not being replaced. When the other one dies or is made obsolete by the final switch to hdtv only, it too will find a dumpster and not be replaced.
Opinions on the game itself aside, the ONLY thing we "owe" to it is exposing the idiots behind the "festival".
Like those they pretend to hate, the organizers of "arts festivals" are often in bed with large corporations.
Why the HELL is that modded +5 insightful (at the time of this posting, anyway)?
They're still incorporated in Delaware. They're still a US company, and still paying US taxes. If you bothered to do more than parrot the party-line hatred of Haliburton, you'd know that.
Minor nitpick: Games have to follow those rules if they want the "Games for Windows" tag/emblem/seal/logo/whatever. There's NOTHING that says you can't make a game, for windows, that doesn't follow those rules. It just won't have the Microsoft awarded logo "Games for Windows".
Since I haven't had cause to go get it, and since I don't like to repeat possible FUD, I don't use that example. I don't know if its really 6000+ pages, or how incomplete it is, or anything else about it.
I can also pass on the opportunity to bash microsoft based on information I have not verified. I'll reserve my bashing for verified failures.
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Have you looked up Adobe's documentation on PDF? It makes the Census Bureau's documentation look small.
You're likely right. There are many who call themselves Christian that act as anything but.
My apologies for offending anyone.
I'm activly planning on those programs NOT being around, because our incompetent leadership will continue to leave them broken for fear of being seen as the party that "broke" the system.
Expensive to treat illness? Got that. Its not too bad now, but its one that will get worse over time.
Age? Getting there. Turn 55 in a couple months.
Well paying job? Well, I run my own business. Selling it will be the only way I'm going to get fired, and at this point, selling the business means retirement comes a few years early.
My retirement planning has put me in a position that I won't need any of the government handouts. And I'm enough of a curmdugeon to say "tough luck" to anyone who planned on sucking the government's tit.
By the way, if you want to see a group of idiots keeping the system broke, blame the members of the AARP.
I'm a conservative (NOT a Republican -- I can't stand our current batch of crooks, or the party that has produced crook after crook after crook).
There's a difference between conservation and what the environmentalists stand for. I support conservation. I do NOT support the extremist policies the green party wants to enforce. Protecting wildlife, good. Transplanting endangered plants to stop something you don't like, bad. Drilling in Alaska, bad with current tech -- I'm open to the idea of drilling in the future with better technology.
Then again, I'm not like most conservatives. I'm not christian. I'm pagan, and as a result I view nature as something other than being put here entirely for the human race to pillage and plunder.
I won't argue that Stallman has been useful, and will likely continue to be useful. But it IS possible for him to hurt free software / open source. The reason is that his socialist rants rub some people the wrong way.
If he'd turn down the socialist rhetoric even a little bit, he'd probably be better received all around.
The problem is other than geeks, nerds, and linux & sony fanboys, most people don't care about having one box that does everything.
Most people ALREADY HAVE a DVD player, a CD player, and a PC to do everything else you mentioned. Most people are not racing to jump on the BluRay/HDDVD wagon. And the PSP isn't exactly the most popular handheld either, especially for casual gamers, so thats not an advantage. The casual gamer is not going to shell out $600 for a device that duplicates functionality they've already got with other devices.
Geeks, nerds, and the linux & sony fanboys are a different story, of course, and your reasoning might work for them. But for the casual gamer -- my parents, for example -- its a $600 box that plays a few games, since they already have stuff to do the others.
And I repeat, them calling that beer does not make it so. It is still horse piss, not beer.
I can call a turd a bar of gold, but it doesn't change the fact that its still a turd.
As an American who appreciates good beer, I agree that you shouldn't treat beer like this. BUT. You also have to admit he's not throwing beer, he's throwing cans of horse piss.
Sorry, I don't agree -- PC games have long been about the same price as console games ($40 - $60), yet have supported a far more complex range of hardware, including higher resolutions than HDTV, and have done so for several years.
Maybe with marketing. But not with any gamer I've talked to.
None of those games are going to be cheaper to buy because of their ads, which is the only way the gaming community is going to like this. If I can get what would have been a $50 game for $20 because it has ads, I might consider buying the game. But I'm not keen on paying "full" price for a game with ads.